The Battle of Midway Roundtable

U.S. Personnel Killed or Wounded at Midway

(Updated 7 June 2012)

We have two comprehensive sources of information on American battle casualties in the BOM. The first was provided by Shattered Sword co-author Jon Parshall, and consists of a listing developed by Japanese researcher Hisae Sawachi in 1986. The list is in PDF format, and you can open from the link below.

Sawachi’s list contains a mixture of Japanese and English text, so here’s a guide on reading the data. Note the following example, with Japanese characters represented by #:

Waldron, John C. LCDR ### ###21 # 11 # 41 # 9 #

The underlined Japanese characters above indicate the individual’s squadron. If he was not a pilot or aircrewman, you’ll see an “x” there. Continuing along the line, Waldron had 21 years and 11 months of service, and was 41 years and 9 months old when he died.

The second resource may be even more comprehensive list than the one above, but it’s not available for on-line publishing.We can still make use of it, though.If anyone has a question about a known or possible casualty at Midway that’s not answered in the Sawachi list, send an e-mail inquiry to midwayroundtable@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply based on all the info that we have from any source.